Control centre
In any undertaking which involves the planning and collecting of data in the field, the building up of an archive for the future and the promulgation of research, a centre where all the activities are coordinated is essential. At such a base the work can be organized and supervised. To ensure continuity it will also have the task of providing funds for its projects. Other research specialists and interests can be concerned with formulating policies but they should not interfere with the day-ta-day running. The Lexicography Foundation of the University of Helsinki, for example, 'was established by certain learned societies ... It was important that the Ministry of Education be included among the founders and the government was therefore persuaded to take part in the comprehensive undertaking ... Parliament awarded funds for word collection and when the continuation of state aid was promised it was possible to organize the work on a new basis' .21 But it is the Foundation which controls the project.
The centre will provide a base for staff, will house the necessary equipment for fieldwork and analysis of the speech-material, will provide conditioned storage rooms for the recorded audio-magnetic tapes and space for the catalogues, information retrieval systems and other archive material.
- Castrenianum, op.cit., p.11
